Games of Interest brought to you by the longest game in Big 12 History

Okay Baylor and Texas A&M have absolutely nothing to do with Syracuse other than Syracuse almost played the Aggies this year in the Coaches vs. Cancer and the Orange beat the living daylights out of the Bears.

With that said, they played arguably the best game ever. Like ever. The numbers are astounding in this. 116-110 Baylor. Five overtimes. Eight players fouled out. 106 free throws. 191 field goal attempts. Only 30 turnovers. 53 three point attempts and 120 rebounds.

The Aggies led by 13 early, but Baylor came storming back to the tie quickly at 27. Baylor then took over going up nine with four and a half minutes to play. Texas A&M wouldn't go away. They tie the game at 64 to the send it to overtime.

In the last minute of the first overtime they seesawed with the lead. Texas A&M extended the game to a third overtime with a late field goal to tie at 80 after both teams score just four points in the second OT.

The third OT continued with A&M taking control, but Baylor fought back to tie the game at 90.

The fourth OT the Bears took over, but A&M got a layup late to make it 99 all.

The final overtime, the Bears were too strong from the free throw line. Texas A&M kept getting baskets after they fell behind, but the Bears kept hitting their free throws. They finished 39-47 for the game and Curtis Jerrells sank free throw after free throw in overtime, 20-24 overall in the game.

Amazingly this isn't the longest game ever! Cincinnati beat Bradley in seven overtimes in 1981. The worst part: ESPN had no rights to the game at all, no full court coverage, nothing, so the game wasn't allowed to be put on any of their outlets or on ESPN360.


Big East games:
Louisville 80, South Florida 60. You know when I said South Florida was a sleeper and is starting to turn things around. Well I was wrong, I'll admit it, I was very wrong. South Florida drops to 1-6 in the conference.

Rutgers 80, Villanova 68. Ha, I was right about something. I've been saying for awhile the Wildcats were overated and they proved it tonight. I know the RAC is a tough place to play, but they got housed by the Scarlet Knights. Villanova went around nine minutes without even scoring a point in the second half. Very good teams don't go on that kind of a drought. 'Nova obviously is a very good team.

Pitt 81, St. John's 57. St. John's, like Syracuse is too young. They will get better during the next few years and will turn into a contender in a few years. Key word: years.

UCONN 84, Cincinnati 83. The Bearcats blew their chance to win another shocker at home. UCONN came back from 12 down with less than six minutes to play. Jerome Dyson blocked 2007 Orange killer Marcus Sikes at the end of the game to seal the victory. Deonta Vaughn is a great player for Cincinnat as he scored 34 points.

West Virginia 66, Marshall 64. Marshall is a decent Conference USA team, but shouldn't be much of a match for a solid WVU, but the Mountaineers need a De'sean Butler jumper with six seconds left to win.